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Handbook of Life Course Health Development.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Halfon, Neal.
Other Authors: Forrest, Christopher B., Lerner, Richard M., Faustman, Elaine M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2017.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Maternal and Child Health, Life Course Health Development, and the Life Course Research Network
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction to the Handbook of Life Course Health Development
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Rationale
  • 2.1 The Emergence of a New Field
  • 2.2 The Maturation of the LCHD Field
  • 3 The Purpose, Structure, and Content of This Volume
  • 3.1 Section I: Emerging Frameworks
  • 3.2 Section II: Life Stages
  • 3.3 Section III: The Life Course Origins and Consequences of Specific Diseases and Health Conditions
  • 3.4 Section IV: Cross-Cutting Topics in Life Course Health Development
  • 3.5 Section V: Methodological Approaches
  • 3.6 Section VI: Conclusions
  • References
  • Part I: Emerging Frameworks
  • The Emerging Theoretical Framework of Life Course Health Development
  • 1 Part 1: Context and Background
  • 2 Part 2: Emergence of the Life Course Health Development Framework
  • 3 Part 3: Principles of the Life Course Health Development Framework
  • 4 Principle 1: Health Development
  • 4.1 What We Mean by "Health Development"
  • 4.2 Theories and Frameworks Relevant to Health Development
  • 4.3 Implications of the Health Development Principle
  • 5 Principle 2: Unfolding
  • 5.1 What We Mean by "Unfolding"
  • 5.2 Theories and Frameworks Relevant to Unfolding
  • 5.3 Implications of the Unfolding Principle
  • 6 Principle 3: Complexity
  • 6.1 What We Mean by "Complexity"
  • 6.2 Theories and Frameworks Relevant to Complexity
  • 6.3 Implications of the Complexity Principle
  • 7 Principle 4: Timing
  • 7.1 What We Mean by "Timing"
  • 7.2 Theories and Frameworks Relevant to Timing
  • 7.3 Implications of the Timing Principle
  • 8 Principle 5: Plasticity
  • 8.1 What We Mean by "Plasticity"
  • 8.2 Theories and Frameworks Relevant to Plasticity.
  • 8.3 Implications of the Plasticity Principle
  • 9 Principle 6: Thriving
  • 9.1 What We Mean by "Thriving"
  • 9.2 Theories and Frameworks Relevant to Thriving
  • 9.3 Implications of the Thriving Principle
  • 10 Principle 7: Harmony
  • 10.1 What We Mean by "Harmony"
  • 10.2 Theories and Frameworks Relevant to Harmony
  • 10.3 Implication of the Harmony Principle
  • 11 Summary
  • References
  • Part II: Life Stages
  • Preconception and Prenatal Factors and Metabolic Risk
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Effects of Maternal Preconceptional Obesity and/or Diabetes and Micronutrient Status on Offspring Metabolic Outcomes
  • 2.1 Maternal Prepregnancy Obesity and Gestational Weight Gain
  • 2.2 Preexistent and Gestational Diabetes
  • 2.3 Maternal Micronutrient Status
  • 2.4 Adverse Birth Outcomes
  • 3 Mechanisms/Pathways Underlying Early Life Origins of Metabolic Risk
  • 3.1 Genetics
  • 3.2 Intrauterine Environment
  • 3.3 Gene and Environment Interaction and Epigenetics
  • 4 Preconception and Prenatal Care
  • 5 Recommendations for Future Study and Perspectives
  • 5.1 Major Themes and Findings
  • 5.2 Research Priorities
  • 5.2.1 Epidemiologic research
  • 5.2.2 Mechanism research
  • 5.2.3 Translational research
  • 5.3 Data and Methods Development Priorities
  • 6 Conclusions
  • 7 Source of Funding
  • References
  • Early Childhood Health and the Life Course: The State of the Science and Proposed Research Priorities
  • 1 Introduction: What's So Special About the Early Years?
  • 2 Susceptibility and Continuity: The Echoes of Childhood
  • 3 Constitution, Context, and the Nonrandom Distribution of Morbidity
  • 4 Six Domains of Early Developmental Research
  • 4.1 Social Stratification, Poverty, and Subordination
  • 4.2 Vulnerability, Resilience, and Neurobiological Susceptibility
  • 4.3 The Topography of Vulnerability.
  • 4.4 Marginalization and Scapegoating
  • 4.5 History and Affliction
  • 4.6 Critical Periodicity
  • 5 Interactions Between Context and Constitution: The Biological Embedding of Early Adversity
  • 5.1 Chromatin Modification and the Molecular Biology of Epigenesis
  • 5.2 The Epigenetics of Social Adversity
  • 5.3 Gene-Environment Interplay in Brain Development
  • 6 Summary: What We Know and What We Don't
  • 7 An Agenda for Future Research
  • References
  • Middle Childhood: An Evolutionary-Developmental Synthesis
  • 1 What Is Middle Childhood?
  • 1.1 Adrenarche
  • 2 The Transition to Middle Childhood as a Developmental Switch Point
  • 2.1 A Switch Point in Life History Development
  • 3 Three Insights in the Nature of Middle Childhood
  • 3.1 Insight 1: Social Integration and Social Competition Are Complementary Functions of Middle Childhood
  • 3.2 Insight 2: Sexual Selection Contributes to the Emergence and Intensification of Sex Differences in Middle Childhood
  • 3.3 Insight 3: In Middle Childhood, Heightened Sensitivity to the Environment Goes Hand in Hand with the Expression of New Genetic Factors
  • 4 Implications for Health Development
  • 5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Adolescent Health Development: A Relational Developmental Systems Perspective
  • 1 Viewing Adolescent Development Through the Lens of the Relational Developmental Systems Metatheory
  • 2 Three Moments of Analysis in an RDS Approach to Adolescent Health Development
  • 3 Developmental Regulations, Adaptive Developmental Regulations, and Human Agency in RDS Metatheory
  • 4 Implications for Research About Adolescent Health Development
  • 5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Emerging Adulthood as a Critical Stage in the Life Course
  • 1 Introduction to Emerging Adulthood
  • 2 Conceptual Framework
  • 3 Macro-level Influences on the Trajectory of Emerging Adulthood.
  • 4 Meso-level Influences of Life Trajectories During Emerging Adulthood
  • 4.1 Earlier Parent-Child Relationships
  • 4.2 Childhood Socioeconomic Status
  • 5 Microlevel Influences on the Trajectories During Emerging Adulthood
  • 5.1 Cognitive Development
  • 5.2 Identity Formation
  • 5.3 Resilience in Emerging Adulthood
  • 6 Trajectories During Emerging Adulthood for Emerging Adults with Chronic Health Condition
  • 6.1 Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs)
  • 6.2 Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (DM)
  • 6.3 Chronic Kidney Disease
  • 6.4 Mental Health and Substance Use
  • 7 Protective and Risk Factors That Impact Emerging Adulthood
  • 8 Services and Supports
  • 9 Recommendations for Research Priorities
  • References
  • Pregnancy Characteristics and Women's Cardiovascular Health
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Associations of Parity and Pregnancy Complications with CVD Risk in Mothers
  • 2.1 Parity and CVD
  • 2.2 Common Pregnancy Complications and CVD in Mothers
  • 2.3 Recurrent Pregnancy Complications, Last Pregnancy Complications, and Maternal CVD Risk
  • 3 Physiological Mechanisms Linking Pregnancy Complications to Maternal CVD Risk
  • 3.1 Cardiovascular Risk Factors Preceding Pregnancy Complications
  • 3.2 Cardiovascular Risk Factors During Pregnancy
  • 3.2.1 Cardiovascular Adaptation in Normal Pregnancy
  • 3.2.2 Cardiovascular Risk Factors During Pregnancy Complications
  • 3.3 Cardiovascular Risk Factors After Pregnancy
  • 3.3.1 Enduring Cardiovascular Impact of Normal Pregnancy
  • 3.3.2 Cardiovascular Risk After Pregnancy Complications
  • 4 Recommendations for Future Research
  • 4.1 Major Themes and Findings
  • 4.2 Research Priorities
  • 4.3 Data and Methods Development Priorities
  • 4.4 Translational Priorities
  • 5 Conclusions
  • References.
  • Part III: The Life Course Origins and Consequences of Select Major Health Conditions and Issues
  • Early in the Life Course: Time for Obesity Prevention
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Conceptual Framework
  • 3 Measurement of Overweight and Obesity
  • 4 Prenatal Period
  • 4.1 Birth Weight
  • 4.2 Maternal Prepregnancy Obesity
  • 4.3 Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM)
  • 4.4 Gestational Weight Gain (GWG)
  • 4.5 Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy
  • 4.6 Hormonal Influences: Leptin
  • 5 Infancy
  • 5.1 Rapid Weight Gain
  • 5.2 Breastfeeding
  • 5.3 Disparities in Obesity Partially Explained by Early-Life Factors
  • 6 Early to Mid-childhood
  • 6.1 Family
  • 6.2 Diet, Physical Activity, and Inactivity
  • 6.3 Food Insecurity
  • 6.4 Child Care and School
  • 7 Adolescence
  • 7.1 Social Influences
  • 8 Macro-level Factors
  • 8.1 Environment
  • 8.2 Local and State
  • 8.3 National
  • 9 Recommendations
  • 9.1 Major Themes
  • 9.2 Research Priorities
  • 9.3 Data/Methods Development Priorities
  • 9.4 Translational Priorities
  • References
  • Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes: Prevention and Treatment Through a Life Course Health Development Framework
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Backdrop
  • 2.1 Genetics
  • 2.2 Prevalence and Incidence of T2DM Related to Age, Race, and Ethnicity
  • 2.3 Economic Status
  • 2.4 Social (Psychological) Stressors
  • 2.5 Summary
  • 3 Preconception and Intrauterine Life
  • 3.1 Maternal Nutrition: Prior to and During Pregnancy
  • 3.1.1 Maternal Under Nutrition
  • 3.1.2 Maternal Overnutrition
  • 3.2 Maternal Stress
  • 3.3 Maternal Hypoxia/Placental Insufficiency
  • 3.4 Environmental Exposures
  • 3.5 Microbiome
  • 3.6 Gestational Diabetes (GDM)
  • 3.7 Summary
  • 4 Infancy
  • 4.1 Feeding
  • 4.2 Infant Growth Patterns
  • 4.3 Sleep Duration
  • 4.4 Parenting and Postpartum Depression
  • 4.5 Summary
  • 5 Childhood.
  • 5.1 Childhood Overweight and Obesity.

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